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Joe Daniels, an Assyrian musician from Soviet Georgia, playing the tar

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Joe Daniels, an Assyrian musician from Soviet Georgia, playing the tar

Place
San Francisco · today United States
Date
1938
DiasporaPortrait

Joe Daniels, described by the Library of Congress as an Assyrian from Soviet Georgia, plays a long-necked tar, photographed for Sidney Robertson Cowell's WPA California Folk Music Project in San Francisco.

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Source

Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection (AFC 1940/001)

Cowell, Sidney Robertson, 1903-1995, collector · The Library of Congress is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection (see Title 17, U.S.C.) or any other restrictions in the material in this collection... Privacy and publicity rights may apply.

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